[Team Deejay]

The main purpose would be to absorb condensation or incidental water. That said, condensation is rarely an issue. If you think back on wet logs you have found, very few are “damp”. More typical would be the cache I recently found near Oconomowoc, where the flood waters had risen above the cache location near a drainage canal. Let’s just say that those plastic coffee containers are not waterproof for pressurized water and leave it at that.

[Team Deejay]

Actually GSAK does allow you to filter by attribute. Of course, that doesn’t mean that people actually set the attribute.

[Team Deejay]

The problem is, you can’t really use this for a pocket query. I think the idea was that you could some how eliminate the “desk” puzzles from your query, but unless you get a query of only mystery caches, there is no way to do this.

[Team Deejay]

You need to contact the author of this macro. This person is very active and I am sure you will get a “revised” version within a day.

[Team Deejay]

OK, the Bookmark and map are up. Due to the change in webmasters, it might be a bit before the reporting list is up to date. Just hang on and post your reports once the new list is ready.

[Team Deejay]

Well, stop using the old list then. I should have it ready in a day or so. The cutoff date looks like it will be March 22, 2010.

[Team Deejay]

I will drop a note to GS on “Ideas for the weekly mailer”.

[Team Deejay]

Incidentally, the propellant in aerosol Off is a combination of propane, butane and isobutane….yep, the same stuff in your gas grill. The bang you heard was likely a gas explosion. You are lucky you weren’t more seriously hurt.

[Team Deejay]

Yes, for GSAK. I don’t believe the Nuvi data structure has anywhere to store the attributes.

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I really think the event was run well, but there is one thing I would like to see changed. Many of the caches are listed as placed by “WBA Chamber”. Now, we all know that no one in the chamber is actually placing or maintaining the caches, so either placing them with the actual placer’s account or adding an “assisted by” to the placed by text would be appreciated. By the way, I’m NOT trying to imply that we have a lot of maintenance issues with the caches placed for the event. I would say that those caches are maintained better than average. I just like to know who is hiding the caches I find.

[Team Deejay]

Thanks, TBC. I started to write a response to this and had a bit of trouble reconciling my roles of board member and reviewer on this topic. It is pretty easy to tell an illegal program. If you have to load the program with caches from a query (like you would load a Palm), it is ok. If it just displays the gc.com page in a browser window, that is ok. If it is sold by Groundspeak, that is obviously ok. If it has its own database of caches which were obviously downloaded from the site, well, that is pretty much guaranteed to be against the TOU.

And yes, the programmer knows exactly what the issues are. Rather than comply or buy a license for the data, it is more profitable to try to skirt the issue and claim ignorance, hoping to find “customers” among those who don’t know better. In this case, GS has a tough position, where they would like to let people know it is “illegal” but any communication would just give the data thieves more publicity. (This kind of stuff is why the PQs are limited to 1000 caches, to make it more difficult to build an external database.)

[Team Deejay]

@glorkar wrote:

When placing a virtual cache, the default size is shown in Polish.
Just created a new virtual cache with a password required to log.
Let’s go swimming!
Just noticed that it changed the cache type to “Unknown” after it published. I attempted to edit it to virtual, but it just keeps going back to unknown.

Water is not an element. Back to chemistry class for you!

[Team Deejay]

Oops, I posted on the other volunteer thread. I said 4-6 there, but really we can do any period from 10AM to close. Just let me know when you need us.

[Team Deejay]

If we find this situation, the response depends on how long the spot has been “reserved.” If it is less than 3 months (as in Nurse Pat’s case), we give the “latecomer” a time frame on when to check back, as 3 months seems reasonable for someone to get everything arranged (double/triple checking coordinates, lining up permission, customizing containers, etc.) More than 3 months but less than a year, we put off the new person temporarily and contact the “reserver” to find out what the holdup is. Depending on the answer, we give them a fixed amount of time to get organized. If they don’t get organized in the time frame given, we just publish the newer cache. Longer than a year, we just assume it is abandoned and archive the old listing.

Note that this system was put in place to give people a chance to obtain permission for their hide. I would think that 3 months is more than enough to get an answer back from any land manager. (No answer after 3 months is kind of an answer in itself.)

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@labrat_wr wrote:

You can put me in with RJ McKenzie at the WGA booth Saturday 4-6pm

I’ll be there as well.

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